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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-06-24
FOURTH OF JULY cHEsTNuTs.

Aspiring Orators Who Began but Never
Finished Their Speeches.
The Fourth of July orator is figure we
could not possibly dispense with. The chest
nuts with which his name is associated are
part of our patriotic history, and be IL is who
keeps the eagle from becoming too arrogant.
He mounts it and scars into the blue empyean,
triumphantiy brandishing the triple hued
banner as he goes, and the proud bird of
freedom cannot help himself. One aDcient
chestnut relates how an untried but ambitious
Independence orator began Fourth of July
panegyric thus:
Fellow citizens: On the Fourth of July,
l776, the American eagle took his first un-
fettered fight towards the ideal land of
freedom. He went UP and UP before the APP
proving gaze of our noble fmefathers But
never has his fight beensso high and glorious
ss to-day. Behold him. my friends and
fellow patriotsi Behold the noble biid who
typides the principle for which eur fathers
fought apd died He goes up fred with the
pride which hes mode us a free and prosper
GUS nation. Yes, he goes up, followed by Che
acclamations of 10000, 600 OF people. Yes,
my fellow patriots, he goes up, cleaving the
air with proud wings, and glories in his
freedom and his strength. He goes up and
up and UP. We watch him till he becomes
mere speck in the blue of heaven Yet
he goes further He goes up and up and
up, until he fades entirely from eur sight
Yet he is there, my friends and fellow citi-
Gems; he is there and still rising. Though we
cannot see him, we know that he IS still
going up and up aud Hr, Yas-noble patriots,
he is still ascending When we see him no
more with our natural eyes we can still fol-
low him with the eyes of imagination stil
see him rising. Yes, with pride we see hmm
go up and up and up and upi And still
higher. Yes, he is still going up and up and
up and up
this. interesting point the gifted orator lost
his bearings hopping his brow in agony he
vainly CROPPED through his chaotic brain for
the thread Of his Grafton. AT last, stiIl gaz-
ing skyward, he said: sConfound the bird!
have sent him up SO far cap't get him down
again. and ingIoriously abandoned the field.
Another equally venerable chestnut deals
with youth who practiced daily as an
orator, with garden of cabbages In the rule
of audience. He got on famously. The cab
bages all gave him their undivided and APP
proving attention. Forensic art was mere
play before such appreciative auditors. He
said what he pleased to them and said it well,
because he feared no criticism. He poured
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out his patriotic eloquence without being
shaken by disappearing sneer. His self
confidence was soon highly developed. he
felt equal to speaking before the selected
brains of the world At last the day came on
which he was to deliver to an audience Of
men and women the speech so often rehearsed
before the cabbages He stepped forth and
was greeted with rousing cheers. They be-
heved in encouraging oratorical talent in
that town. He bowed, and they eheered
again. He opened his mouth, but no sound
came forth His tongue was parched like q
clay road after long drought A sensation
the like of which he had never felt before
took possession of hin. Self confidence fed,
and abject fear took its place. At last he
managed to husldly articulate: ladies and
gentlemen, see you are not cabbage heads"
and sat down, and none but the cabbages IN
the garden could tell the world what It had
lost in losing that speech, and they have been
silent TO this day.
And yet another hoayy chestnut strides
forth from the honored past. It. too. owes
its existence 10 the Fourth of July speech
maker. He was a young man who began by
saying: ladies and gentlemen: Forty years
ago this spot was an unbroken wilderness
The wolf howied and the bear growled where
we to-day stand"
he paused, and his hearers applauded.
Then he went on:
"Forty years ago not a stick of timber had
been cut from these broad acresn
Another pause, which was unrelieved by
any marks of appreciation on the part of the
audience. He continued:
AS ] said, forty years ago thousands Of
. trees were standing on the broad acres about
us-and-and-and wish with all my heart
they were standing there yet" And thus
began and ended his Fourth of July address;
and here endeth the chapter on the chestnuts
Of independence
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-06-24

Of the cruelty, the BENJAMIN FHANkL.iN.
tyranny, the vices of the Eighteenth century,
our American reformers founded a republic
in which federation, humanity, education and
virtue were to be the pillars of the rising
state. Well might John Adams break into
kind eff lyric rapture when he surveyed the
work he had just accomplished In letter
to his wife be said:
q The ID day Of July, 1776,' will be the
most memorable epoeha in. the his
tory of America. I. am apt to believe
it .sill be celebrated by succeeding gen.
! erations as the great anniversary festival. It
ought to be commeuoTated as the day of de-
liverance by solemn Gets Of devotion TO God
Almighty. II ought to be solemized with
pomp and parade, with shows, games, sport,
balls, bonfires, Examinations, from one end of
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FOURTH OF JULY. l776.

II we could look back to the I'd Of July,
1776, sweeping aside the years that lie be-
tween, and see In the sultry streets Of Phila-
dslphia the procession or patriots who founded
our republic moving thoughtfully toward the
old State house, we would see band Of men
the equal In intellect and appearance of any
In the worlds Misrepresentation Of whom
we have a right to be proud. One was Frank
lin, Sthe venerable father Of science In the
new world" simple, with excessive cultiya-
tien, philosophic and modest, ahe looked with
composure, at least without regret, upon the
act Of independence.
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PATRIOTISM.

Protean selfshness puts on no guise
More apt than patriotism TO blind our eyes.
Shah H1ton, Ffen4Amnl, RaS American
elory In rtinea tkaN woaid dsgrace-a manf
Pct your own coasey poremusss work for herr
Hers 10 all private interests prefer;
But never dream that violence and fraud
In her name turn to praise and nobleness:
That lies are bad at home. but good abroad;
That honor and fair dealing have bound
Mars'd on the map; that any right can prove
Wrong to another, or male right less.
And, after ell this, recollect there's love.
Love one another" yea, Lord; look around
After all this there's love-nay, love comes first
Else our pretended virtues are the worst
OF all the evils wherewith life Is curst.
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ont ON the morning of the Fourth ia fina
spirits and his best clothes. He has true
patriots hatred of tyranny, and giories in in
dependence with the best of them He always
abhorred the British, and for good reason.
They used to kill him and stuff his hide for
museums. Being brave, he did not mind be-
ing killed; but the degradation of having his
royal hide stared at by men in eye glasses
and tight laced women was too much for him.
He venerates the Declaration of Independ-
ence and win go to any amount of trouble
and expense to show his respect for it. With
self satisfaction and dignity he sets forth,
wearing his honors majestically, and pre-
pared to do his part in celebrating the proud
est day Of the year properly.
The following morning finds him changed
and depressed being. With bandaged eye,
muddled head, one wing in sling, bedrsg-
gled and disheveled feathers, and bruised
and weary body, he is obliged to call in medi-
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/ 1ANN@ - $3.50
a b $ mt, James
| Otis, to W h ON
might well be APP
piled the name of
the creator OF the
theory of indepSa,l-
ence. He was at
honia a hopeless
maniac, made 80
by a blow from a
Tory oppon emit.
His brilliant mind
clouded, he scarcely
saw the revolution
of which he had
been with Lee and
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walk here, and who fell in battle. fhonor,
too, every armless man. every limping soldier.
who through patriotism went 10 the battle
H2d and came back lame and crippled, and
bears manfully and heroicaHv bis deprivaaon.
What though he find no occupatidi1 What
though he be forgotteni he has In him the
imperishable sweetness of this thought: ~ did
it for my country's sake" For Gods sake
and for your country's sake, live, and you
shall live forever.
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GOLD GLORY"

The following poem won the first prize OF 500
IN The Boston Pilot competition. Its author Is
Emma Frances Dawson. Of San Francisco. Il Is
In the old and difficult French form Of verse
chantroyals, the making OF them having been
called - hard and thankless task" Heretofore
only one poet has made use OF this form of verse.
In making tho announcement 10 the author that
she had drawn the first prize, Mr.. John Boyle
oReilly said: II congratuiate you on having
added q great poem TO the permanent literature
OF America Among patriotic poems It viii
rank forever with anything ever written" "old
Glory" is name given our flag by our soldiers
during the late war. This poem was inspired by
the following paragraph by George F. Hoar:
II have seen the glories Of art and architecture
and mountain and river; / have seen the sunset
on Jungfrau, and the fun moon rise over Mount
BLANC; but the fairest vision which these eyes
ever looked was the flag OF my country in foreign
land. Beautiful as flower 10 those who love it,
terrible a. ameteor to those who hate it. IL Is the
symbol Of the power and glory and the honor Of
100000 Of Americans"
Enchanted webb A picture In the air,
Drifted TO US from out the distance blu
From shadewy ancestors, through whose brave
We live In magic of q dream come true
With Covenanters' blue, as II were glassed
In dewy flower heart the stars that passed
o blood veined blossom that can never blight!
AhO AcSin4 ottOnr hhS q SoSicu Eltcs
Il ineaeh star and stripe deelamatory.
The constitution thou shalt long recite,
Our hailowed. eloquent, beloved ''old Gloryl"
oympnony Ia reo, whipe, oiuel-Ianlare
vi uumpet roi, OF drum' forever new
Its tones Of Liberty the wide world through
In battle dreaded like cyclone blastl
Symbol OF land and people unsurpassed.
Thy brilliant day shall never have night.
On foreign shore no pomp so grand sight,
No face so friendly, naught consolatory
Like glimpse OF lofty spar with thee bedigh,
Our haliowed, eloquent, beloved "Old Gloryis
~ n. e,o oue lAs, AZ pIyel'
u,Se. 81. s.,s, mus. ,i', |" Iesie~'
Has properties OF all the numbers too,
Cnoe' SOHO square root root OF root; pest
ciasseo
II Tor MS essence the Creator cast.
ror purity are tiny SIX stripes OF wnite,
ms number circular ana endless quite
n 5 tunes. well knows the scholar wan and hoary,
o 1ns SL.llnln' oa,-'ls S'. IN, aiight-
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among us the su-
preme pest Of civ
ilization, had left
here the canker
that had corroded
{ b e freedom Of
Greece and Rome,
and had seemed to
make impossible in
the new world any
advance hey nd
the ininassiys hu-
mainly of the past.
Yet, in the midst
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And who can over
look the stalwart
figure Of Samuel
Chase, OF Mary
landi His gentle
colleague, Charles
Carroll, was alb
sent, but signed
the declaration, on
August 2. Cesar
Rodney was there,
and Arthur Mid
Geton, of South
Carolina, and the
eloquent Edward
Rutledge.
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b, ttair Journals.
10 be proclaimed N
their streets, to be
published fro m
their pulpits, to be
read at the head of
their armies, to be
Incorporated for
ever into their his
tory. The British
forces, driven away
from Boston, were
th en- landing on
Staten Island.
Thau xzyara .,.a$h.
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dark, gray eyed
Virginian, still
young at 80, a
Democrat Of tn Q
severest C ulture,
yet the most radical
Of republicans, a
friend Of the people,
who was yet to give
fifty years more Of
the work Of b is
J swift, incisive intel
lect TO his country.
H uman equality
was the theory that
engrossed him.
Here. he abhorred
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agp met together TO
found a republic
and been deceived
When Europe was
a savage wilder
ness. except for
a thin line Of settle
ments around the
Mediterranean sea,
when all England
and France, Ger
many and Spain
were the haunts Of
savage tribes, a
fair, adventurous,
brilliant race had
spruns no on the
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My angel, his, name is Freedom,
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And 'fend yon with his wing.
For Freedoms battle, once begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.
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@Under that signature, with only tho at
testation of a secretary, the Declaration goes
forth to the American people, TO be printed
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THE NATIONAL BIRD.

How He Appears at the Beginning and
End of the Fourth.
Knowing that he is the great figure Of
the day, our friend, American Eagle, starts
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MOLE SAM LEADING THE NATIONS TO 81
TUNE OF YANKEE DOODLE.
Here Yankee Doodle leads the van,
With much Of jubIlation,
While follows him with rout and cheer
OF earth each various nation.
As on TO glory here they press
We still shall keep the van, sir,
And be of freedoms problem here
The first TO find the answer.
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cal aid. ayes, it is always so, J" he says to his
old time friend, the doctor. u love the day;
but it invariably proves too much for me. Il
Is the orators who undo me. don't mind the
firecrackers, the yelling Of the boys, or the
balloon business. don't even succumb to
ipordinate quantities Of red lemonade and
chicken pie. can also get on with the pro-
cessions and numerous other troubles; but the
orators undo me quite. Think what I have
to bear from them. They ride me till my
backbone is almost broken; and they use
such atrocious rhetoric when talking about
me that it puts me mentally out Of joint !
ann yanked from one to the other and banged
about till haven't feather left unrumpled.
OF course Ihave to endure it In the interest
freedom. Being the national bird and the
emblem Of freedom can't back down. But
you see where it all leaves men e.
whats hallowed groundi -Fis what gives birth
To sacred thoughts In soufs of WORTH
Peacoi Independence Truth go forth
Earth1g compass round,
And your high priesthood shall make earth
Al hallow'd ground.
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Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise.
The Queen of the wosld and the child Of tho
skies
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o blessed Flag, sign Of our precious Past,
Triumphant Present and our Future vast,
Beyond starred blue and bars Of sunset bright
Lead US to higher realm OF Equal Right
Float on In ever lovely allegory.
Kin 70 the eagle and the wind and light,
Our hallowed eloquent, beloved "Old Glory"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-09

THERE is an unnecessary scare in the city
about the drought and the water we have to
drink, and the community should not become
frightened into the belief that typhoid fever
diphtheria and kindred diseases are to be cpl
demic because some of the wells are drying up
and show organic matter analysis. The
simple method of obviating the bad effects of
surface water. by boiling it before using, is re-
commended by physicians of all kinds, and
it can do no harm to follow their advice; but
there is no reason to spread alarming repssts
about the dreadful ravages of the diseases
mentioned, when even the doctors disagree as
to the number of cases and the causes of
them. This is an uncommonly dry season.
and there is some more sickness than usual;
but Indianapolis is very healthy city, and
consequently these things attract more at-
tention here than they would where theso
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tons.

COLLECTOR SALToNsTALL, of Boston, came
back from Washington the other day bearing
with him the Presidents Endorsement of the
candidate for Governor whom the mugwumps
have refused to support. This it was thought
by the delighted Democracy would be suf-
ficient to bring back the disaffected indie
pendents to the party of their adoption, an
opinion far from complimentary to the
independence of their principles. Indications
are that the desired result was effected to
considerable extent, but the Boston Herald
refuses to follow its once idolized leader. It
apologies for him with the remark that it is
natural for Democratic President to favor
the candidates of his party, but says some
what testify that in deciding as to who is the
proper man to elect for Governor of Massa-
chusetts, those who are not Democrats are
amply able to act for themselves and need no
outside advice in the matter. Signs multiply
that the mugwumps getting very tired.
Signs of real independence also begin to
exhibit themselves.
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The managers of the Union Labor party in
Cincinnati were guilty of proceeding yes
terday which certainly disgraces them and
may bring disgrace on their party. This
was nothing less than complete sell-out
to the Democracy During the campaign the
labor party has had ticket in the field, and
kept up every appearance Of an honest, indie
pendent movement Yesterday. after the
polls opened it was learned that an order had
been issued from headquarters of the labor
party to vote for Powell. Democrat, for Gov
ernor. A more open and indecent attempt
to sell and transfer mass of voters in bulk
was probably never made. After this it will
hardly do for leaders of the labor movement
to denounce the trickery and corruption of
the old parties. To the credit of the voters,
however, it is to be said that the indecent
bargain failed of its purpose.
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litical organization. 1t has not been afraid
of the "Bloody Shirt"-as that expression is
understood-and that sort of campaign has
gloriously won. 1t is not that the late war
is not yet over, but that it is over, end
that the South shall not be permitted to
disturb or reverse the verdict of that ire
mendous conflict. All other things that be-
long to great political party the Republicans
of Ohio have notforgotten nor left undone, but
they have also not forgotten the broad
and everything principle Of freedom and
equality for which the Republican party
stands Little Brooches Foraker presents
his compliments to Grover and Mrs. Cleve-
land, and respectfully asks them how they
like the Ohio style of snub, and he also sends
his compliments to the entire Democratic
Nation as well, with plurality of about 25,-
600 and both branches of the Legislature.
One thing the Ohio election has made crafty
ingly prominent, and that is that the Repub-
icans of Ohio are too wise and too patriotic
to quarrel. The effort to create a row between
John Sherman and Governor Foraker and
their friends disastrously failed. We believe
that Governor Foraker will know how to
behave with becoming dignity and self-re-
straint in this hour of his splendid personal
triumph, and that the victory in Ohio will do
much to clear the way for aggressive, real
Republican fight in the whole country next
year, fight without quarter apology, on
old Republican lines.
In the State of Pennsylvania the Republic
ans will have plurality of about $4,000, but
in the city of Philadelphia the indications are
that the personal liberty" or lawbreaking
combination have won on some of the local
candidates This is the history of such
movements in all cities; success at first, until
the people understand what the real motives
and tendencies of the combine is, and then an
overthrow that teaches the lesson that law
must be respected and obeyed. The people
of Philadelphia should not be discouraged By
their first backset.
The entire Republican ticket is elected in
the city of Chicago. ~
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COM MENT AND OPINION.

If the timidity of its people should prevent
the execution of the Anarchists Chicago would
be Justly entitled to the scorn of the wOrldl-Chi
cago Times.
THE coal barons and oil monopolists are doing
their best to prevent poor people from deriving
any benefit from these bounties of nature The
people patient and long suffering, but they
are beginning to feel that something must soon
be done.-Boston Globe.
THERE no John Browns among the pardon
soliciting Anarchists, it is hardly necessary to
caught in the act of murder for murders sake;
and the gallows is their proper fate from every
point of view.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
IT is a significant fact that the Democratic or
gans have nothing but kind words for those who
fought to destroy the Union except those who
have repented of their mistake and joined the
Republicans They can't find words harsh
enough for ex-rebels who are not in sympathy
with those who are still rebels at heart as much
as they ever were.-Detroit Tribune.
THE Anarchists declared war with dynamite
and bombs against society; they preached the
resort to the most iendish assaults upon COM
munities, and proceeded to carry their threats
and preparations into execution by murder The
signers of the petitions for executive mercy have
acted upon the theory that murder committed
in pursuance of an Anarchist plot is less worthy
of death than ordinary murder.-Chicago
News.
CERTAINLY it would be better to imprison
than to-hang Anarchists or any other criminals.
Hanging is barbarous. But the law prescribes
hanging as the penalty. the revelations of the
trial made hanging the just penalty and the SEN
tence of the court was for hanging. The Gov
ernor of Illinois is not asked to mitigate the
sentence in this because hanging is bar
barous but because timid people are
afraid of Anarchist revenge. and because some
politicians want the Anarchist vote.-Milwau-
kee Sentinel
In the same sense that these Anarchists are
martyrs is the midnight ruffian hero who way
laws, beats to death and robs the man whose
pockets he knows are filed with money. We
have had enough of sham. Let there be little
honesty and common sense. Not oratory but
humility; not threats, but modest prayers not
demand of rights, but petition for that Glenn
ency they crave yet affect to scorn. should dis
tinguish the Anarchists now. Let not them nor
their friends mistake the silence of the people.
1t is not the hush of fear; it is the calm of reso
lution.-Cyhcaoo Inter Ocean.